
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1993                   TAG: 9307140452
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY  
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Medium

PULASKI KIDS LEARN ABOUT ECOLOGY FROM TOURING TEAM

Groups of young people have been getting lessons in environmental education at the Hensel Eckman YMCA from a team of college students and graduates that is touring the Southeastern United States under a Southeastern Forest Experiment Station Program.

Four team members spent two days in Pulaski last week using skits, games, discussions and audio-visual aids to introduce such concepts as forest-management, conservation and ecology.

The team was making stops in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida to bring its environmental education programs to young people from different economic backgrounds and areas. They hope to reach at least 1,200 young people from the ages of 5 to 18 during the summer.

The team members are: Rona Bennett, 21, a senior studying English and communication arts at the University of Maryland at Eastern Shore; Anne Bohnet, 22, who has graduated with a degree in environmental science from Simpson College in California; Jesse Cabell, 24, a senior agricultural engineering major at Michigan State University, and Anthony Edgerson, 22, a senior communications major at Wilberforce University in Ohio.

The team's efforts are being sponsored by the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station of the U.S. Forest Service.

by CNB